Thursday, 02 May 2019
I’m clicking a web link for an MP3 song and getting an «.htm» file instead – what’s the problem?
If you’re winding up with an .htm extension, you’re probably not dealing with links that point directly to MP3 files. I’ve never heard of *anyone* storing MP3 files with an htm extension (although they do use some strange extensions sometimes), and I doubt they would, as it would almost certainly result in improper downloads. «htm» is a standard extension for HyperText Markup Language files, i.e. basic web pages. Probably either the link is pointing you to another web page which will in turn pass you to the MP3 file, or the creator of the link if just trying to trick you into visiting some web page, or the MP3 files has been removed and the htm file you are getting is some kind of warning or notification from the server telling you that the file is not available.
